Hamlin Garland
1860 –
1940
Hamlin Garland was born Hannibal Hamlin Garland on September 14, 1860 in West Salem, Wisconsin. A poet, novelist, and biographer, Garland was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1922 for his book A Daughter of the Middle Border (Grosset & Dunlap, 1921). He died in Hollywood, California on March 4, 1940.